A justice campaigner and self-described ‘anti-paedophile’ has been jailed for possession of child pornography.

Jason Packer, 45, claimed the images, which were on a document named ‘Explosive Hidden Hancock File’, had been planted onto his computer and fought his prosecution until the very end of the £2,800 court case, The News reports.

The children in the images were between five and 10 and other extreme pornography also found on his computer included women being raped and killed.

The children’s entertainer, described by Recorder Frank Abbott as a ‘staunch campaigner’, was handed a a six-month sentence for the extreme images and a 12-month sentence for the child abuse, to run concurrently.

‘At the end of the day, before me is a man who purports to be a person against child pornography, a person who is someone who is against corruption of politicians, various types of child abuse, and has got images of the same on his computer,’ Mr Abbott said.

‘It seems to me there really isn’t any excuse whatsoever.’

Packer, of Balliol Road, Buckland, was also handed a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years restricting his internet use and he must sign the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.